Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-12-14
WHAT Is SAID OF II,

The Minnesota Congressman Favorably Inn
pressed With the Message, but of Course
1t Don't Go with the Protectionists?
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Dec. g.
The presidents message fell little fat in
the house to-day, although making the tariff
its main point of discussion and leaving out
all other matters 1t furnished no new
points and made no suggestions to congress
that would be followed. Straddling and
vacillating between protection and free
trade, il pleased no one completely. After
having half-dozen experts at work during
the past three months collecting figures from
the latest sources. he supplies congress with
stale extrpats from the census of 1880.
Throughout it is reply to a protection
stump speech 1t does not in any paragraph
rise above party. Members ON the Demo
ratio side of the house, while openly prais-
ing the message, were inclined to find fault
because no plan of action was suggested.
The Republicans criticised the message
freely. Said Virginia Republicans:
That man has ignored our interests entirely.
With that document in the land in the last cam
paign: we could have carried the state without
trouble
Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio said:
I think our wool men will believe me now /
told them good while ago: you have been
fooling with this wool tariff business for some
time. You have been trying to control it in
Ohio by electing Republican here and a Demo-
GRAFT there without result" They got black
eye in this message that think will teach them
to go to the Republican party hereafter for re-
lief.
Congressman Nelson said to-day:
I rather think the presidents message was
pretty good document. 1t seemed to me that
his recommendations were fair to us. OF course
there are a good many recommendations of his
that do not like. hut / think he has Grnatad the
tariff fairly.
Mr.. Lind was inclined to agree with Mr.
Nelson. Congressman Mcdonald says:
think the recommendations of the president
good argument in favor of the revision of the
tariff. The subject was fully covered. clearly
analysed, and the duty of congress fully i'm
pressed upon it. l am very well pleased with
the terseness and completeness of The docu7
ment. :. :,
Congressman Kelley-To execute the objects
indicated by the president without destroying
many Of the leading industries of the country
is an utter impossibility. 1t is said that Mr..
Cleveland publicly admitted that he had not
known how large the country was until he took
his party trip around the circle which had not
anything like the diameter of that around which
Andy johnson swung Mr.. Seward The reading
OF the message Will convince the men whose
capital skill or industry are embarked in our
productive pursuits that he knows less of the
natural resources of the country and the capacity
of its people than he did of the almost boundless
limits of its territory when he started on his
summer jaunt.
Mr.. Randall-Well, he forces the issue upon u.s.
Mr.. Bingham of Pennsylvania-It Is the most
full and explicit utterance in the direction of
free trade during his administration. 1t goes
further than any Democratic utterance in this
house in any debates on the tariff question, and
it certainly will be of great benefit to the Re-
publican party to have the issue so well defined
William Walter Phelps-He comes out squarely
against protection to American labor, so that
every man can see just where he is, and on that
issue we can carry the country. :
Mr.. Reed-It has come like great blessing
TO u.s. Now we sec what is in our front.
Senator Frye-It is exactly the message we
wanted. It sharply defines the issue, and leaves
the Republicans nothing to be desired
Senator Teller-It is rehash of the ordinary
free trade stump speech, not very we'll selected
at that. He laws down exactly the plan upon
which the Republicans will be glad TO stand
J. kandolpn IuckerLb ls evident that our
tobacco.